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Being utterly brazen about being a jerk may be losing its cachet.

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I'm not sure if MN Tim Walz is the one who started calling them "weird," but the new adjective has taken off. One thing Trump can't stand is being laughed at. For Harris, laughter is shared pleasure and fun. For Trump, laughter is just another form of meanness. Weird, indeed.

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One of the new names for CFDT is DonOld Duck. We'll see if that gets him riled enough to debate Kamala. If he falls behind the margin of error in several swing states, he may reconsider.

I would love to see a Walz/Vance debate. Walz can be brutal, but in a folksy kind of way.

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Bullies dish it out but they sure can't take it.

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We teach our 3rd graders not to be bullies and we teach bystanders ways to defuse bullying so that they become "upstanders." I guess there are no upstanders among the MAGA crowd.

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I think youтАЩre onto something JL. IтАЩm sensing a certain amount of тАЬbrazen fatigueтАЭ out there as well. This Trump Broadway show may have finally run its course.

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Can we dream

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Demagoguery never really goes out of style, but it can get tiresome.

When you're hot, you're hot, when you're not, you're not.

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